CITIZENSHIP

Following the national lockdown which was announced in the US about two months ago, application and petition receipts have dropped to half, impacting the ability of the agency to continue to function effectively. The USCIS relies primarily on income from visa processing to keep itself running.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a day-long visit to Kolkata where he is scheduled to address the rally at the Shaheed Minar Ground and also inaugurate a new building of the National Security Guards (NSG) at Rajarhat and hold closed-door meetings with state BJP leadership along with Nadda.

Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday launched BJP’s ‘aar noye anyaay’ (no more injustice) campaign against the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool government in West Bengal. Addressing a rally at the Shahid Minar ground in Kolkata, Shah picked on Banerjee on a host of issues and said he was confident that BJP would form a government in the state.

Initiating the debate on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, Congress member Manish Tewari said the government has come up with the measure for a political motive "which everyone knows", but did not elaborate. He also said that the Bill was violative of the provisions of Articles 14, 15, 21, 25 and 26.

A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar of Delhi High Court issued notice to the Centre, Delhi government and police on a plea filed by a Jamia student seeking a probe by a committee into the police crackdown at Jamia Millia Islamia University on December 15 last year due to violent protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

These claims would have been a whole lot more credible if one, the Assam NRC had not happened and, two, home minister Amit Shah had not repeatedly affirmed his intention to implement a nationwide NRC, and three, the intent to give refuge had extended its benevolence to all neighboring countries and all denominations.